HANOI, May 29 (Reuters) - Vietnam’s coffee exports for the January to May period rose an estimated 1.8 percent from the same period a year ago, while rice exports surged an estimated 20.4 percent during the same period, government data showed on Tuesday.

COFFEE

Coffee exports from Vietnam will rise an estimated 1.8 percent between January and May from a year ago to 825,000 tonnes, equal to 13.75 million 60-kg bags, the General Statistics Office said in a report on Tuesday.

RICE

Rice exports in January-May from Vietnam were forecast to rise 20.4 percent from a year ago to 2.8 million tonnes. Revenue from rice exports in the period were forecast to rise 51.1 percent year-on-year to $1.57 billion.

May rice exports from Vietnam, the world’s third-largest shipper of the grain, were recorded at 600,000 tonnes, worth $460 million.

ENERGY

Crude oil export revenue in the first five months of 2018 fell 20.4 percent to $919 million.

Oil product imports in the five-month period increased 11 percent from the same time last year to an estimated 5.56 million tonnes, while the value of the product imports rose 35.3 percent to $3.6 billion.